Popular Literature

Author : Rupayan Mukherjee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838216660
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Literature written by Rupayan Mukherjee and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a selection of critical essays on texts that can be broadly categorized as popular literature. The essays are inclined to question the idea of 'the Canon' and re-consider the divide between the canonical and the popular. As such, besides engaging in a serious critical reading of typical popular literary texts like The Jungle Book and The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book also considers populist tendencies in literary classics like Jane Eyre and Frankenstein. It will be of interest to young scholars and readers of popular literature, science fiction, detective fiction, genre studies, and culture studies. The volume's contributors are: Anisha Ghosh, Arnab Dasgupta, Goutam Karmakar, Jaya Sarkar, Jaydip Sarkar, Madhuparna Mitra Guha, Mandika Sinha, Mitarik Barma, Pinaki Roy, Puja Chakraborty, Rajadipta Roy, Rupayan Mukherjee, Shirsendu Mondal, Shubham Dey.

Author : Ken Gelder
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415356473
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Fiction written by Ken Gelder and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary and cultural field, tied directly to the logics and practices of entertainment and industry.

Author : Shobhaa De
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184754213
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialite Evenings written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A divorce and a succession of sordid affairs have left prominent Bombay socialite Karuna feeling battered, empty and melancholic. She looks back upon her life and the friends and enemies who surround her—neurotic, man-hungry Anjali; gorgeous, vivacious Ritu; high-profile editor Varun, with a penchant for young boys; Krish, the pretentious adman, whose wife actively helps him in his extramarital affairs. Scandalous, astute and utterly riveting, Shobhaa Dé’s first novel, Socialite Evenings, laid bare the world of high-society India and changed the face of the Indian novel forever.

Author : Helen Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317532171
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Popular Fantasy Literature written by Helen Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have explored the genre’s racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The book’s interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. The beginnings of the Fantasy genre’s habits of whiteness in the twentieth century are examined, with an exploration of the continuing impact of older problematic works through franchising, adaptation, and imitation. Young also discusses the major twenty-first century sub-genres which both re-use and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores debates and anti-racist praxis in authorial and fan communities. With its multi-pronged approach and innovative methodology, this book is an important and original contribution to studies of race, Fantasy, and twenty-first century popular culture.

Author : J. D. Salinger
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316460001
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catcher in the Rye written by J. D. Salinger and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Artem Vorobiev
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031111923
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature written by Artem Vorobiev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work of Shibata Renzaburō (柴田錬三郎, 1917–1978), the author of adventure and historical novels who was instrumental in reinvigorating popular Japanese literature in the postwar period. This book considers postwar Japanese society through the prism of Shibata’s writing, exploring how the postwar period under SCAP Occupation influenced Shibata’s writing and generated the extraordinary popularity of samurai fiction in the postwar era at large. Through the use of a nihilistic warrior, Nemuri Kyōshirō, and other samurai characters, Shibata Renzaburō addresses important social issues of the day, such as the trauma of defeat, postwar reconstruction, and the attending societal ills and neuroses, while keeping his literature entertaining and easy to read, which ensured its mass appeal in postwar Japan.

Author : Andrew McCann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064422
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain written by Andrew McCann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the representation of the occult in late-Victorian popular fiction, exploring different perceptions of authorship and creativity.

Author : Percy Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages written by Percy Society and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: